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Sec. 2, Pg. 4 - Plaindealer - Wed. May 14, 1969 Story To Remember An editorial worthy of mention was recently printed in a small Georgia newspaper. It recalled the depression days of the thirties and how hard times brought people together. The incident concerned a family in Iowa, a farm family which couldn't make its mortgage payment because of the awful slump in commodity prices. As is legally accepted procedure, all possessions of the farm were to be sold by the sheriff at auction. And when auction day arrived some 'fifteen neighboring farmers were on hand. The first item to be auctioned was the bankrupt farmer's six prize mules. A farmer bid two dollars. There were no other bids. The sheriff hesitated, but his glance met steely eyes from every farmer at the sale. He proceeded with the auction. Machinery brought a dollar or two, or fifty cents; other possessions brought similar amounts. Finally, the sale was ended - and every buyer had a legal bill of sale, with the sheriffs stamp attached/ 4 Then they all gathered together and went over to the bankrupt farmer, their neighbor, and gave him the bills of sale. He was back in business again, free of debt. The philosophy in this true story includes a truism that hard times sometimes bring people closer together Conversely, prosperous times often produce jealousy, envy and undesirable traits and trends. In today's divisions and domestic strife - and .hatreds - this is a story to remember. Long Range Effects In order to prove the value of advertising, a newspaper in a small city agreed to run advertising of a variety store on a commission basis. The store paid for the advertising from a small percentage of the profits derived directly from specific items advertised. The experiment was not very satisfactory. It worked too well from the standpoint of the store. Straight advertising costs would have been less expensive. In addition, the merchant began to realize that the worth of advertising cannot be measured in terms of returns from a specific advertisement. More experienced retailers have learned that it is impossible to gauge the long range effects of consistent advertising, or the side effects of an individual advertisement. What brings a young man to a store to buy his first expensive suit of clothes? It might have been advertising he unconsciously absorbed ten years earlier. On the other hand, it might have been a single advertisement he saw yesterday in his hometown newspaper. What causes a high school senior to buy her winter coat at a particular dress shop? Perhaps a recent description of the coat. On the other hand, she could have gone to the store to buy stockings offered in a recent sale and added the expensive coat because she saw it on her visit. Profit from advertising is not measured in terms of pounds of bacon sold during a given week, or the number of shirts moved by sale advertising. Real profits are related to the "traffic moving past counters week after week and year after year. •to' r V S . r v t i u i 1 •V ' 1. <>. "Well, it was either run into this truck or have an accident! " mi iiT5iTrrrri»ifl»flfl n»gwyTrimrtrmy- Are You New In Town? Do You Know Someone New In Town? Z We would like to extend a welcome to every newcomer to our community. Cris Fail CALL 385-4084 Fran Olsen 385- R0YAL WELCOME Joan Stull ARMED FORCES DAY- MAY 19 ftiffiLrJ'S SCRAPBOOK °f u,tTJ/{ern" MAN ON THE MOVE Social Security QUESTION BOX BY " JIM JANZ FIELD REPRESENTATIVE Today's questions are ones frequently being asked of our representatives by the people of McHenry county. The Social Security office at 2500 Grand avenue, U.aukegan, reminds Mc Henry county residents that it has representatives meeting people at two lpcations in Mc- Henry county on a regular basis. The representatives are at the Woodstock Public library, 414 VV. Judd, Woodstock every Wednesday from 9 a.m to noon and at the Harvard city hall from 9:30 a.m, to noon on the first and third Tuesday every month. If you have a question you would like answered on Social Security in this column', please forward it to Social Security Administration Question and Answer Column, 2500 Grand avenue, Waukegan, Illinois, 60085. Give your full name, address, and Social Security number. If you do not want your name to appear, please indicate this and we will use only initials. Question: Are social security student benefits payable if the student receiving them gets married? Answer: Social security benefits would terminate with payment for the month preceding, the month in which the student reaches age 22, marries or ceases to be in full time attendance at school. Question: Medicare refused to pay a substantial part of my mother's hospital bill on the gounds that her stay there after a certain date was not medically necessary. What can I do about it? Answer: You should contact your district social security office and file a request for a reconsideration. Be prepared to state your reasons why you believe the Medicare decision was wrong. Question: Is there any penalty if a person getting social security claimed over $1680 in 1968 and failed to file an annual report with the social security office by April 15? Answer: Failing to file a timely report can bring a penalty of the loss of one month's benefit for the first offense. Question: I am getting social security now, but won't be 65 for another six months. When should I sign up for Medicare? Answer: If you are already receiving social security benefits, you will automatically receive an application for Medicare sometime in the three month period before you reach 65. Question: My grandmother was getting the Special Age 72 social security benefit, but because of illness she had to go into a rest home and apply for old age assistance. Now they have stopped her social security benefits, why?. Answer: The Special Age 72 Benefit is not payable to people who receive a pension or WHEM FFA-I.PCAD'I FIG>57 APPEARFR' CF LCNDDM SCIENT SCIEMNLV SECLASEC? THAT IP T(?A,^5 TAS'ER 30 MILE5 PER HCJP WHAT'S VOUR APDPESS, BUDPyf I GOTTA SEND THIS TICKET TO YOUR NEXT CP Klhl E PASSENGERS WOULD Su'c rCT^TE MASK WOUlP 1 J L \ HELP-HAS IT W BEEN INVENTED'*'"^-O £ AMiA HAD THE ' NO PARKING s - Ano ViOiATCPS YVEPE PUT PfA'H [bjjjj piKiH P3aH With its wing Flaps d THE <?YAN •ee'^lANE CAK ""A* E OFF AFTER A 56 PROVIDE MOBILE UNIT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION USE A special education mobile unit, first of its kind in Illinois, has been put into use to provide in-service teacher training, according to Ray Page, Illinois Superintendent of Public Instruction. Page pointed out that, "The required growth in special education services to be made available to all handicapped children in the state by mid- 1969 will necessitate a vast amount of teacher training. While teachers in metropolitan areas may have access to training resources, the teachers in sparsely populated regions would find such resources geographically unavailable. "To improve quality of education for the handicapped child during the present period of expansion in teacher numbers, many teachers new to the field will have to receive intensive training." The unit is staffed by professionals knowledgeable in the field of special education and instructional materials. The specially constructed unit, ten feet wide and fifty-four feet long, contains audiovisual equipment, new and traditional instructional materials, and informational resources. The mobile unit is a part of the services provided by the Instructional Materials Center for Handicapped Children and Youth. New in concept, the center provides, in-service special education training at its Springfield office as well as through its regional centers. assistance grant from any tax supported source. Therefore, when the social security office was notified that she was receving old age assistance, they were obliged to immediately stop the social security checks. >vThe mobile unit will carry such services to the outlying areas in the state. This is an innovative approach to the goal of providing quality education for all children in Illinois. The center is funded in part under P.L. 88-164 as well as through state funds. The equipped mobile unit was obtained through Title VI - ESEA funds, while personnel and operating costs are provided through state funds. ENROLLMENT NOW OPEN FOR FARM FORESTRY CAMP Enrollment is now open for McHenry county boys who want to attend the eighteenth annual Illinois Boys' Farm Forestry camp, set for Aug. 3-9. The camp, located cm Lake West Frankfort near Thompsonville, helps boys become better acquainted with timber, soil and water conservation, according to McHenry County Assistant Extension Adviser David F. Smith. At this camp the boys have an opportunity to learn more about the practical application of forestry to farm operation. The camp also provides a background for managing form woodlands for lumber and Christmas tree production or recreation and wildlife protection. Smith points out that boys who have attended past forestry camps say the experience helped them whether they decided on careers in forestry, conservation or other fields. Boys 14 through 18 years old are selected on the basis PUBLIC PULSE (The Plaindealer invites the public to use this column as an expression of their views on subjects of general interest in our community. Our only request is that writers limit themselves to 300 words or less signature, full address and phone number. We ask. too, that one individual not write on the same subject more than once each month. We reserve the right to delete any material which we consider libelous or in. objectionable taste.) OUR KIND OF PEOPLE "Dear Residents: " Perhaps I may seem a bit facetious due to the fact that I am in all honesty a transplanted Chicagoan but then most of the people I am referring to are also from a different locality. "I have lived many more years than I cafe to admit; I have experienced more events that I would care to admit; but never in all the years that I have lived and never in all the places I have been have I ever had the pleasure of knowing the wonderful people of McHenry, the Lakeland Park area in particular. "Neighbors, in the most part, are a strange lot. In a large city such as Chicago, you could live in the same area for years and never even know the name of the family across the street. This, in itself, is not strange due to the transient nature of people who inhabit a large city. Then, too, the struggle to survive in a large locality is a bit more difficult due to the competition. •' " The people of Lakeland Park have just as many faults as folks from other localities, but being a poor neighbor is not one of them. "I have known and read of cases where a neighbor has gone through a terrible experience without the folks next door even knowing about it and caring less, but that doesn't happen in our town. "For this reason alone I am proud to be a part of our town. "I can speak from first hand experience because a dear one of my family had a mild catastrophe and the neighbors in Lakeland Park came to the aid of the family like no other town I have lived in. "Not too long ago, another family experienced a more severe catastrophe, but due to the loyalty of the folks from Lakeland Park the aid to survive has been supplied without fanfare and perhaps would never have been mentioned I may even be censured for even bringing it out in the open, but I feel so proud of being a part of this town that I feel like shouting it out to the hilltops. These are my type of people. "I wish I could mention names, but I know that would be frowned upon so all I can say to the folks in my town is that I love you - you wonderful, wonderful people. "Clare Haerle" For Your information Dear friends, 385-5418 ?3 Ann Ze ller- 385-0559 jj ROUIWS ftp hilUMIS OPEN 7 Days A Week CONTINENTAL DINNERS On the North Shore COCKTAILS Of Long Lake BANQUET ROOMS RESERVATION* JU 7-0741 ROLLINS ROAD P O Ingleside Illinois Like any professional group, we funeral directors must continue to "do our homework" to keep our services up-to-date. In funeral service, as in other fields of endeavor, there is no standing still. Modern equipment must be purchased - new techniques must be learned. In this way we hope to provide our community a continually improving and more satisfying funeral service. Respectfully, MtHtnry, Illinois PETER iWJISTEN & SON FUNERAL HOME 38MJ063 by CAl SKINNER.JR Q. Why did you make taxes go up so much this year? A. The Treasurer's office does not determine tax rates or assessments. It merely acts as the collecting agent for each of the local governments of McHenry county. Q. What can be done to get rid of the personal property tax? A. Senator Robert Coulson of Lake county has come up with a bill that would exempt the first car and, all household goods from the personal property tax. You could contact your state legislators in support of this bill, Senate Bill 816. Q. Who are our state legislators? A. Legislators representing McHenry county are Senators Karl Berning (R-Deerfield) and Dennis Collins (R-DeKalb) and Representatives John Henry Klein (R-Lake Forest), Thomas Hanahan (D-McHenry), George Lindberg (R-Crystal Lake), Lester Cunningham (R-Belvidere) and Dan Pierce (D Highland Park). Q. Why are personal property tax bills higher in McHenry county than in Lake county? A. The primary reason is that cars registered from McHenry county are assessed at 60 percent of their auction value, while cars registered from NLake county are assessed at only 45 percent of the auction value. That means that McHenry county residents are assessed about one-third higher than Lake county citizens. Q. I hear that Senator Arrington has proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish the personal property tax? When would that take effect, if it were passed in Nov. 1970? A. Not until 1971. For at least the next two years McHenry county residents would end up paying the highest personal property tax in Illinois, high real estate taxes, sales taxes and the proposed income tax. NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL RECORD SET IN CITY "The First Baptist Church of McHenry set a new Sunday School attendance record of 303 Sunday, May 3, reported as McHenry county's largest single session Sunday School", stated John Lynch, general Sunday school superintendent. Lynch pointed out that ihe people of McHenry area are responding to the gospel npessage of new life and the love and power of Jesus Christ like never before. Mrs. Lois Chappeii, teacher of the growing Sunday School Women 3 class, points out that parents are becoming more concerned about the spiritual life of their families and children. p£Of£sS TO*V of interest in forestry, leadership capacity or experience with a personal or group forestry project at home or in a school or club. Most boys who attended last year's camp were members of 4-H, FFA, Boy Scouts or church organizations. Instruction at the camp is provided by nearly thirty qualified public and pr^ately employed foresters, agricultural and conservation leaders and teachers under the direction o( the Illinois Technical Forestry Association. McHenry county boys who would like to enroll in the Illinois Boys' Farm Forestry camp should see or write to David F. Smith, P.O. Box 431, Woodstock, for further information by May 15. OPTOMETRIST Dr. John F. Kelly At 1824 N. Green Street, McHenry (Closed Wednesday) Eyes Examined Glasses Fitted Contact Lenses Hrs. Dally 9:S0 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday Evenings 8:30 p-m. Evenings by Appointment PHONE 385-0452 Dr. Leonard L. Bottari Eyes Examlned-Glasses Fitted Contact Lenses 1303 N. Richmond Road Hours: Mon., Tues., Than., Frl. 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tues., Thurs., ft Frl. Eve 7 p m. to 9 p.m. Sat* 9:30 to 3:00 p.nv> No Hours on Wednesday PHONE 385-4151 If No Answer . Phone 385-2262 OFFICE EQUIPMENT McHenry County Office Machines Sales • Service ft Rentals Typewriters, Adders, Calculators Mon- - Sat. 9:00 - 5:30 - Friday till 9:00 p.m. Phojie 459-1226 93 Grant St., Crystal Lake, 111. METAL WORK Schroeder Metalcraft for Home and Garden Wrought Iron Railings Fireplace Screens Antiques 1705 S. Rt 31 PHONE 385-0950 INSURANCE Earl R. Weigh Fire, Auto, Farm ft Life Representing RELIABLE COMPANIES When You Need Insurance of Any Kind PHONE 385-3300 or 385-0953 8429 W- Elm St., McHenry, 111. George L. Thompson General Insurance • LIFE • AUTO • HEALTH • FIRE • CASUALTY • BOAT Phone 815 385-1066 3812 W. Elm St., McHenry In McHenry Plaindealer Blgd. Dennis Conway Auto, Life, Fire State Farm Ins. Cos. 3315- W. Elm St. McHenry, Illinois 385-5285 or 385-7111 LETTER SERVICE Mimeographing • Typing Addressing • Mailing Lists McHenry County Letter Service 1212-A N. Green St PHONE 385-5064 M o n . t h r u F r l . 8 - 5 Closed Saturdays ACCOUNTANTS Paul A. Schwegel 4410 West Route 120 McHenry. Illinois 385-4410